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Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

Jane Sarashon

As a noun, Merriam-Webster tells us that a rebel is a person who opposes or takes up arms against a government or a ruler. As a verb, “to rebel” is to oppose or disobey one in authority or control, or otherwise renounce and resist by force the authority of one’s government.”

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Is Preemption the Cure for Healthcare Federalism’s Restrictions on Medication Abortion?

Bill of Health

healthcare system, representing just one example of “healthcare federalism” — the division of power between the federal and state governments in the regulation of health care. Attorney General Merrick Garland made the position of the federal government clear, stating: “[T]he FDA has approved the use of the medication Mifepristone.

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Psychedelic Inequities and Unexplored Risk: Colonization, Commercialization, and Regulation

Bill of Health

Both Robert and Valentina Wasson published sensational magazine articles in Life! federal government remained unresponsive to the wealth of evidence supporting the therapeutic use of psychedelics. and This Week, respectively, along with subsequent texts that exposed María Sabina without consent, credit, or compensation.

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Do No Harm: A Call for Decarceration in Hospitals

Bill of Health

Though strict protocol typically governs everything in hospitals, for prisoners, those rules seem to go out the window, without deliberation. They leafed through magazines or scrolled on their phones, waiting. This heightens the cruelty of incarceration. Neither of these circumstances applied to Nebraska Twenty.

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Black Health Should Matter More in America: The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health

Health Populi

Twice as many White people (15%) than Black people (7%) rated “government/politics/election-related” concerns as the third-ranking worry. The public health pandemic has converged in 2020 with the negative impacts of financial stress and mental health tolls. population by a factor of 2 to 1.

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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Health Populi

The targeted prevention programs channeled through schools and churches as well as on-line, increasing engagement in the at-risk population and resulting in a 20% decline in teen pregnancy over 3 years. This would break down a barrier for people living in food and/or pharmacy deserts.

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How Social Media Can Get Public Health So Wrong

Jane Sarashon

This week, public health truths have collided with social media, the infodemic, and health citizenship. First, I read in Becker’s Health IT on February 16 that the peer-reviewed policy journal Health Affairs was prevented by a social media outlet from promoting its February 2022 issue themed “Racism and Health.